BURNE JONES (Edward), The Garden Court
Puisant à pleines mains dans le fonds mythologique et légendaire, Burne Jones semble s’être fixé pour objectif de réenchanter le monde, de rappeler à ses contemporains ce qu’ils ont oublié depuis Hamlet : qu’il y a plus de choses, dans le ciel et sur la terre, que leurs yeux n’en peuvent contempler. ses tableaux laissent la porte grande ouverte à toutes sortes de songeries, auxquelles invite leur formidable étrangeté. Significativement, Burne-Jones a choisi de figer les quatre grandes toiles qui composent son cycle The Legend of Briar Rose, variation sur la Belle au bois dormant, dans un profond sommeil que rien ne vient encore troubler : « J’ai voulu laisser ce qui se passe ensuite à l’invention et l’imagination des gens, disait le peintre, et ne rien leur dire de plus. »

Illustration musicale: Barry WHITE - You re the first the last my everything

We got it together didn't we?
We've definitely got our thing together, don't we baby?
Isn't that nice?

I mean, really, when you really sit and think about it
Isn't it really, really nice?
I can easily feel myself slipping more and more ways
That super world of my own
Nobody but you and me
We've got it together baby

Ahh, the first, my last, my everything
And the answer to all my dreams
You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star
My kind of wonderful, that's what you are

I know there's only, only one like you
There's no way, they could have made two
You're all I'm living for
Your love I'll keep for evermore
You're the first, you're the last, my everything

In you, I've found so many things
A love so new only you could bring
Can't you see if you
You make me feel this way
You're like a first morning dew
On a brand new day
I see so many ways that I
Can love you, 'til the day I die
You're my reality, yet I'm lost in a dream
You're the first, the last, my everything

I know there's only, only one like you
There's no way they could have made two
Girl you're my reality
But I'm lost in a dream
You're the first, you're the last, my everything

You and me baby
Just you and me
Ya you are the first, the last
My everything

Barry White